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Show Fish Made Newfoundland Famous. Newfoundland is the place where tvid liver oil cullies I nun mid transatlantic transat-lantic planes go from. Hut, in Hie recent re-cent excitement over trnnsocean flights, the coil liver oil unci the coillish thut furnish it hnvo lieen nearly forgot ten liy most of us. Newfoundland lias the greatest cod-fisheries cod-fisheries in tin.' world. The annual flitch is esliinali'd at 2,500,000 fiiintal.s a (pilnlal being one-twenl iel h of a ton. One-half of this catch is exported, and ils vaiiit' is ahoul .S0,000,000. Most of Ihe cod is dried before it is exported. ex-ported. Nearly all people ill Newfoundland live hy working for some branch of (he Brent codfish business. Popular Science Monlhly. |